{"product_id":"histories-book-william-shakespeare-9780765116949","title":"The Histories","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Shakespeare arrived at his splendid maturity as an artist in his second cycle of history plays. With their superb battle scenes; their magnificent major and minor characters; their stories of ambition, usurpation, guilt, and redemption; and their profound ideas about the social order, these plays represent the Elizabethan historical drama in its full glory. And thanks to parts one and two of \u003ci\u003eHenry IV \u003c\/i\u003eour literature is graced--in the figure of the dissolute and boastful knight Sir John Falstaff--with one of the greatest comic creations in the history of the stage. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This volume contains \u003ci\u003eRichard I; Henry IV, Part One; Henry IV, Part Two; Henry V; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHenry VI. \u003c\/i\u003eThe texts, authoritatively edited by Sylvan Barnet, are supplemented with textual notes, a bibliography, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare's life and times, a helpful family tree of the Houses of Lancaster and York, and a substantial introduction in which acclaimed scholar Tony Tanner discusses each play individually and in the context of Shakespeare's oeuvre.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49561856409873,"sku":"GOR003153600","price":4.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49609768075537,"sku":"GOR008169777","price":4.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50405400215825,"sku":"CIN0765116944G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0765116944.gif?v=1751361167","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/histories-book-william-shakespeare-9780765116949","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}